Do you mean that the disc bay will not open or that the discs will not play? If it will not open there should be a tiny hold somewhere on the face of the drive that will allow you to push a small paperclip inside and it will release. If it doesn't open on it's own, listen for any noise of it trying to open. If there is a noise, the gears could be worn or if no noise then it may have just burned out on you. Good Luck

Do you mean that the disc bay will not open or that the discs will not play? If it will not open there should be a tiny hold somewhere on the face of the drive that will allow you to push a small paperclip inside and it will release. If it doesn't open on it's own, listen for any noise of it trying to open. If there is a noise, the gears could be worn or if no noise then it may have just burned out on you. Good Luck

You could try to fix this by uninstalling your dvd drive in device manager and then rebooting. this might fix your problems. windows will automatically reinstall the drive when the pc restarts. if you have corrupted files you could try clicking on START, then clicking RUN, typing the command SFC /SCANNOW in the box and pressing ok. this should repair any problems.
to uninstall the drive in device manager, right click on my computer, click properties. you will find device manager on the tab or listed on the left in vista. right click on your dvd-cdrom drive in the manager and uninstall.

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Option 1:If you restart the computer and just after it restarts if you hold down
the eject key on the keyboard it should eject the disc, if not I would
check to see if there is a tiny hole on the disc drive that you can
stick a paper clip in - not sure if the ibook will have it but worth
while checking.

Option 2:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the startup sound, press and hold the key
combination Command-Option-O-F.
Note: The Command key has the Apple icon on it.
3. Release the keys when you see a white screen that says "Welcome to
Open Firmware."
4. At the prompt, type: eject cd
5. Press Return, then wait a few seconds. The disc drive should eject any disc that is present, and "ok" appears behind your command when the
action is complete.
6. Type: mac-boot
7. Press Return.

The first to try would be restarting while holding the left mouse / trackpad button.

If that does not eject the disk then restart and try the following.

When you hear the startup sound, press and hold the Command, Option, O and F
keys. (The Command key has an Apple on it.)
Release the keys when you see "Welcome to Open
Firmware."
At the prompt, type: eject cd and press enter

If the disk will still not eject then you may have a faulty drive. My suggestion would then be to make an appointment with a tech at your nearest apple store and take advantage of the fact that the first 15 minutes are free whether you're in warranty or not. Use that time wisely and see if he can troubleshoot the drive further.

Ok, let's go through the options in case you have missed one. Command E, Open Finder and click eject button next too it's name, dragging the item to trash, press F12, or hitting eject on the keyboard. If none of those work make sure the drive is not just busy. Sometimes you have to wait a few seconds even after stopping the application. You can use Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities to eject a CD. Open Terminal and type drutil tray eject
If that fails, in Terminal type drutil list and then look at the list and find the drive. Tyoe drutil tray eject 1 The 1 should be replace with whatever drive # you found in the list.

Here's possibility 1: from the apple forums" We had a repair come in at work with excactly the same issue, I managed
to correct the issue by correcting the CD-Drive connection to the logic
board, the customer had a very VERY big smile on his face once I had
fixed. I felt so happy after this repair, unfortunatly, it earned our
AASP no money tho. But it made me happy to see a smile I caused. Possibility 2: firmware command:To eject a disc with Open Firmware commands, follow these steps:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the startup sound, press and hold the key
combination Command-Option-O-F.
Note: The Command key has the Apple icon on it.
3. Release the keys when you see a white screen that says "Welcome to
Open Firmware."
4. At the prompt, type: eject cd
5. Press Return, then wait a few seconds. The disc drive should eject
any disc that is present, and "ok" appears behind your command when the
action is complete.
6. Type: mac-boot
7. Press Return.

Possiblity 3

If you can't get the CD to eject normally, reboot and hold the Option
key. You'll see a startup drive select window. When the cursor changes
to an arrow, (be patient, it may take a minute or two) then press your
eject key, the CD will eject. You can also try holding the
mouse/trackpad button down during a restart.

Hi GInette, sorry to hear you are having problems,
here is how you eject a disk that is stuck in the optical drive of a Mac.
Shut down the Mac.
press the power on button
VERY QUICKLY, press the mouse button, the trackpad button and hold it down firmly until the disk ejects.
This is a built-in hardware command independent of your system and always works when doe right, unless the optical drive is no longer recognized by the Mac or if something is inhibiting it's ejection.
Good luck

If you can only get the disk in that short way, I think you have another disk or item already inserted. Press the key that looks like a triangle above a parallel line while the computer is turned on. Also, check your desktop for an icon that looks like a cd disc. If you find one, drag it to your trash can. This will eject a **** if one is inserted.

Some of the iBook G4 optical drives are very sensitive. The best way to test if it is still working is to use the System Disks that comes with every Mac. Regarding the Flash disk, it may be that your iBook is using USB 1.1 protocol, while your Flash is using USB 2.0. You can check what type of USB your iBook has in the System Profiler. If it is 1.1, then you are out of luck. If its USB 2.0, then you have a faulty logic board. Either way, not good news for you. Sorry.